What year was one of your great-grandmothers born? Divide this number by 125 (use a calculator!) and round the number off to a whole number. This is your "roulette
number."

Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy
software program to find the person with that number in your ancestral name
list (some people call it an "ahnentafel" - your software will create
this - use the "Ahnentafel List" option, or similar). Who is that
person, and what are his/her vital information?

Tell us three to five facts about that person in your
ancestral name list with the "roulette number."

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rite about it in a blog post on your own blog, in a
Facebook status or a Google Stream post, or as a comment on this blog post.

NOTE: If you do not
have a person's name for your "roulette number" then "spin"
the wheel again - pick another great-grandmother, a grandfather, a parent, a
favorite aunt or cousin, yourself, or even your children!

I love playing Ahnentafel Roulette, so even though I’m a day
late, here’s my submission:

My paternal great-grandmother Sarah Belle Forshee was born
in 1856. Her birth year divided by 125 is 14.848, rounded up to 15.

Ruth Franklin was born 12 March 1851 in Ohio, probably Union
County, the eldest child of Joseph Franklin and Rhoda Cary, and died 28 August
1914, in Parsons, Labette County, Kansas. She married David A. Snider on 5
January 1871 in Union County, Ohio.

Ruth and David moved from Ohio to Kansas in 1880. They were
enumerated in the census in Leesburg Township, Union County, Ohio, on 17 June
1880, but their fifth child Byron Lee was born in November 1880 in Kansas.

Ruth was the great-granddaughter of Luther Cary, a soldier
in the Revolutionary War; it is through this line that I joined the National
Society Daughters of the American Revolution.

Ruth (Franklin) Snider shared her mitochondrial DNA with her
daughter Myrtle (Snider) Yawman (my grandmother), her granddaughter Beaulah (Yawman)
Sherrell Spurlock (my mother), and me and my sisters, Deanna and Jennifer. I
had only a son, but her mitochondrial DNA continues down to the daughters and
granddaughters of Deanna and Jennifer.